# Octen, free, POST /extract, Extract: Web scraping API

> Extracts clean markdown content from URLs. Supports batch processing, query-focused highlights, page classification, and multimedia resources.

Octen's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, Text, Links, Images.
We haven't run Octen through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/free-post-extract-extract
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://octen.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.octen.ai/extract`, Extract
- API key: with the plan, on https://octen.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Octen (https://octen.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Markdown: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Pulse Search · Broad Search · Web Search · Image Search · Video Search · News Search · Business Search · Place Search · Embedding · VL Embedding · Answer · Deep Research · Grounded Generation · Auto Search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extracts clean markdown content from URLs. Supports batch processing, query-focused highlights, page classification, and multimedia resources.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 day
- Keep data: 24 hours: a cache to improve your application's performance may not persist longer, no permanent storing, archiving or database of the output built as a substitute for its services
- Use data: your internal business purposes or integration into your applications as its documentation permits, no competing search engine or AI model developed or trained on it, no resale, lease, sublicense or distribution of the services without its written consent, Octen may name you and show your logo as a customer

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: 5,000 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 33.33
- Batch: 20

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: mode "standard", query, max_age_seconds, format, timeout, include_images, include_videos, include_audio, include_links.scope, include_links.max_links
- Method: POST
- Path: /extract

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, extraction status, resolved mode, page title, page markdown, page text, highlight, published date, last crawled date, page structure, page category, favicon URL, cover image URL, page images, page videos, page audio, page links, total URLs, successful URLs, successful URLs by mode, latency, warning, request ID

## Octen's plans (6)

- [Octen, free, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/free-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 1 day
- [Octen, top-up from $5, Base, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 1 day
- [Octen, $2,099 monthly, Builder, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/2099-monthly-builder-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 1 day
- [Octen, $13,999 monthly, Pro, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/13999-monthly-pro-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 1 day
- [Octen, $33,999 monthly, Max, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/33999-monthly-max-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 1 day
- [Octen, contact us, Enterprise, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/contact-us-enterprise-post-extract-extract/llms.txt): 57% complete, 1 day

## Octen's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /extract`, Extract: [Octen, free, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/free-post-extract-extract/llms.txt)
- `POST /extract`, Extract, advanced: [Octen, free, POST /extract, Extract, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/free-post-extract-extract-advanced/llms.txt)

## Octen's APIs (3)

- [Octen: news API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/octen/free/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /broad-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-post-broad-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /business-search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-business-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-free-post-pulse-search-pulse-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/free-post-search/llms.txt)
- [Octen: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/octen/free-post-extract-extract/llms.txt)

## Octen: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Scrapeless, top-up, Basic, top-up, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeless/top-up-basic-top-up-post-api-v2-unlocker-request-js-render/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [FetchFox, $10 monthly, Monthly subscription, POST /api/visit](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchfox/10-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.octen.ai/api-reference/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/capabilities/web-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.octen.ai/resources/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octen.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://octen.ai/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing